Standing next to his family on this important night, Bolles wore a temple pin tacked on his gray suit, showing the world that family and faith have been essential in bringing Bolles to the place he is today.

"Faith drives my family and my family drives football," Bolles wrote on Instagram. "Without them I wouldn't be where I am today. I love my beautiful wife Natalie and my sweet baby boy Kingston. They are a blessing in so many way. I can't wait to have them by my side through this amazing dream and journey of playing in the NFL."

Bolles' life before he found the LDS Church was tumultuous at best, having been kicked out of five schools and his own home. But then he was taken in by an LDS couple, Greg and Emily Freeman, who introduced him to the gospel.

"Garett fell in love with God in a way he hadn’t ever before and his life began to change," Emily Freeman writes on Time Out for Women. "Opportunities opened up. Things beyond our imagination. Opportunities, the likes of which would never have entered into our hearts."

Among those opportunities were the chance to serve a mission, the chance to play football for a junior college and eventually the University of Utah, and the chance to marry his wife, Natalie Bolles, in the spring of 2016.